42 Macworld • January 2022

iPHONE

I

t was just a few short years ago

when we told you about a then-

upcoming wireless technology

called Wi-Fi 6. At the time, what

was once known as 802.11ax was

henceforth given a much more

consumer-friendly name, and previous

convoluted Wi-Fi standards got

similar names: 802.11ac became Wi-Fi

5, 802.11n became Wi-Fi 4, and so on.

New frequency spectrum means faster speed and better reliability.

Jason Cross reports

What Wi-Fi 6E means for

the future of the iPhone

And now we have an even newer

name, Wi-Fi 6E. It’s an updated version

of Wi-Fi 6 that includes access to the

new 6GHz frequency band. But while

it doesn’t bring new technology over

Wi-Fi 6, this new frequency could be a

huge deal and will make a major impact

on the future of wireless networking.

Rumours suggest that Wi-Fi 6E could

show up in the iPhone 14.